Joe Devine

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21,544 appearances 32 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Tifo Football Podcast · Mourinho’s Real Madrid drama, Brentford’s consistency & Monaco top the league! · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

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I think, you know, I was I was uh he's not here to reference his own book, John Mackenzie, The The Spectre of Pet, but there's a there's a significant Mourinho chunk in there which is quite fun. matched

And it is worth saying, you know, it's it it it's we haven't gone into much depth about why we would consider him not maybe a a tactical equivalent these days of of the of the best tactical coaches. matched

Um but it's because he he's because he matched

He's a proponent of an older style of football, of a style of football that was very successful in the 2000s. matched

Uh he you know, the his his his his main thing is what's called tactical periodization, which is an approach to training. matched

It's not just the type of training you do, it's it's the whole approach to training. matched

But the most simple way of describing it is putting the players in game type situations in all of their football training, and you know, uh with the hope that they learn matched

learn to resolve and solve the problems of a football pitch on their own and empowering the players, which is something that over the last fifteen years or so has been overhauled as a positive tactical approach by positionalist coaches like Pep Guardiola. matched

But having said that, Real Madrid have made it abundantly clear initially prior to the hiring of Jabbi Alonso and then immediately after the matched

attacking of Jabi Alonso that they don't the the players there andor the club don't want to be a team that play in this modern positionalist sense. matched

They have uh players of of incredible quality who maybe are better at solving problems on on their own, or certainly are better at solving problems on their own than many players elsewhere. matched

So it's not a surprise to me at all that a coach like Mourinho would be less effective at a less big club. matched

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Not a surprise that he wouldn't be able to do as well with let's just say Manchester United, for example, where you know they still have very good players, but they don't have players who are of the quality that can completely dominate the league in a way that he does uh at Real Madrid. matched

So that's not it's not a value judgment about whether or not I think that's a good or bad approach to management. matched

It's just in a circumstance where it's clear that the club have chosen that already, I whether or not on the basis of matched

What the players want, kinda makes sense to pick someone like but just send me matched

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I mean that's that's the difference between winning five Champions Leagues in a row and not winning anything for three years. matched

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